Maternity Care Is Essential to Family Medicine

Family Medicine Maternity Care: Implications for the Future

Family medicine hospital care.

Plans to accommodate proposed maternity care training requirements: a national survey of family medicine directors of obstetrics curricula.

INTRODUCTION Proposed changes to family medicine maternity care training requirements, including a 2-tiered basic and advanced curriculum, have raised questions about their perceived feasibility and impact. The goal of this study was to elicit family medicine obstetrics faculty plans to adopt changes in their maternity care training of family physicians. METHODS We surveyed obstetrics curricu...

Future vision: is family medicine ready for patient-directed care?

A growing number of Americans will soon have a Web-based personal medical home with connectedness to their chosen providers of care. The personal health record will become integrated with the electronic health record. Like other services on the Internet, patients will be able to direct much of their health care using clinical guidelines, such as prevention, chronic illness care, behavior change...

Family medicine anesthesia: sustaining an essential service.

OBJECTIVE To elicit the opinions of family physician anesthetists (FPAs) and hospital Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) regarding the structure of their organizations and the importance of family medicine anesthesia. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Ontario hospitals. PARTICIPANTS The CEOs of Ontario hospitals and family physicians who provide anesthetic services in Ontario hospitals. MAIN O...